Why the list isn’t in this blog

Originally, the list of IDNs were in this blog. It turns out that WordPress treats the domain names as URLs and converts the bytes to hex encoded values. This is wrong for IDN. So you cannot properly link to international domain names in WordPress blogs at the moment.

As a result, I suggested on twitter to use the hashtag #idnfail for people to report blog, twitter and other applications that are broken with respect to international domain names.

The initial list of #idnfail apps (which I have not verified myself for each entry) is: